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Good to see you back with corrections, Robin. I think you're absolutely right about the Larkin. Have no idea about the graves, but that would sound right, about these guys trying to rid themselves of what they now find embarrassing youthful crap (cf Auden). Doug On 25-Apr-09, at 12:43 AM, Robin Hamilton wrote: >> Philip Larkin Collected Poems (ed. Thwaite 1989) > > Isn't this the clusterfuck Larkin editon? > > Whether or not you like Larkin, he went to a hell of a lot of > trouble to arrange the poems in book form. which Thwaite tediously > deconstructed into chronological form. > > Didn't Faber recant (my copy has the publication date as 1988, not > 1989) and reissue this with the poems grouped -- North Ship, etc. -- > in the form Larkin intended? > > There are problems with Collecteds -- Berryman's Lise of the > Berryman Sonnets gets retro-edited to is it Nora or Jane? in (yet > again) the Faber Collected Berryman. > > <sigh> > > R. > Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html There's the wind and the rain And the mercy of the fallen Who say they have no claim to know what's right Dar Williams